Willy and the Poor Boys

Review

(Fantasy)
Release Date: 11/02/1969 12:00

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A Woodstock appearance consolidated their grudging acceptance by the psychedelic generation, whom they quickly abandoned by embracing the rustic side of hippiedom. Their third (!) album of 1969 was a sort of inverse Sgt. Pepper—Creedence portrayed an ad-hoc street-corner ensemble, playing a set of pointed Fogerty rockers about class and American politics (one of which presciently disses then-California governor Ronald Reagan), plus two covers of ’40s folk-blues figurehead Lead Belly, to underscore their allegiances.

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